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Shoubak Revolts
The Shoubak revolts were a series of uprisings against Ottoman authority in the Transjordanian town of Shoubak that took place in 1900 and 1905. The second uprising started after the Ottoman forces started to put women of the town into forced labor, considered to be a deliberate act of punishment against the inhabitants of Shoubak who were frequently insubordinate. Shoubak rose in revolt and managed to rally the neighboring Bedouins with them; the perpetuators were brutally punished by military force through an Ottoman expedition sent from Al-Karak, just north of Shoubak. Shoubak revolt of 1900 Heavy taxation by the Ottoman Empire authorities with no state-provided services in return led to a rebellion by the inhabitants of Shoubak in 1900. During that rebellion, the inhabitants of Shoubak climbed the town's Montreal Crusader Castle and killed a number of Ottoman soldiers. After the revolt failed to spread to neighboring towns and was quickly suppressed, the inhabitants of Shoub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suleiman Mousa
Suleiman Mousa () (11 June 1919 – 9 June 2008) was a Jordanian author and historian born in Al-Rafeed, a small village north of the city of Irbid.Eighty: An Autobiography; Suleiman Mousa (lang-ar, ثمانون: رحلة الأيّام والأعوام) He wrote up to fifty books of which most prominent are ''Biography of Sharif Hussein, Sharif Hussein Bin Ali, Jordan in the 1948 Palestine war, 1948 War, Arab revolt, Great Arab Revolt'', ''History of Jordan in the 20th century'', and was the first and only Arab author to write about Lawrence of Arabia and show the Arab perspective.Publications of the Ministry of Culture/ Wasfi Al-Tal St.; The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan His book ''Suleiman Mousa#T. E. Lawrence: An Arab View, T. E. Lawrence: An Arab View'' was published in 1966 and translated into English, French and Japanese. It was written after a study that had convinced him that although there were many books written to praise Lawrence and others written to discredit him, all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
